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Yemen's Tawakul Karman confident that change is unfolding

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:36:16 +0300

The young Nobel Peace Prize laureate believes there's no going back after the revolution that ousted President Saleh. Not for women and not for the country. SANA, Yemen — Tawakul Karman hurried

Arab Spring 2013: Revolutionary wave enters a third year

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:44:16 +0300

As we start a new year - the Arab Spring's third - it is time to reflect on its developments, successes and failures over the last 12 months. Its causes - dictatorship, economic stagnation, political

Yemen makes baby-steps toward recovery amid security disorder

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:39:24 +0300

Yemen has made slow pace towards recovery one year after a Gulf-brokered peace deal was signed, despite security disorder that casts a cloud on the general situation, especially the West-backed politi

Violence in Israel challenges U.S.-Egypt ties

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:43:27 +0300

The Obama administration struggled Thursday to deal with the biggest flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence in years, unable to call on its old ally, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, to nego

US-Yemeni terror obsession will not solve Yemen's woes

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:47:57 +0300

Among the world leaders who congratulated President Barack Obama for winning a second term last week was the Yemeni president, Abdrabu Mansur Hadi. From the Yemeni leader's point of view, the most imp

The Final Stretch: Obama, Romney gunning for Election Night victory

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:29:50 +0300

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face the verdict of U.S. voters on Tuesday after a long and bitter White House campaign, with polls showing them deadlocked in a race that

Yemen: Journey to a land in limbo

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:26:25 +0300

Angry, nostalgic, fearful: a return to Aden reveals a people grappling with their nation’s future A short while ago, I swept past the Victorian garrison church overlooking the port city of Aden

The Danish biker and the trail that led to al Qaeda's most wanted

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:29:07 +0300

(CNN) -- A 36-year-old Dane called Morten Storm says he was the man who led the CIA to Anwar al Awlaki, the al Qaeda cleric killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last year. And he says he did it with

Analysis: After U.S. embassy attack, West uneasy over Saleh's role

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:52:22 +0300

(Reuters) - Seven months after he reluctantly handed over the presidency, Ali Abdullah Saleh's continuing sway over Yemen is worrying Gulf neighbors and Western nations who fear that the political tr

Iran: an overt threat to Gulf national security

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:28:24 +0300

The statement issued yesterday by the Supreme Guide of the Islamic Republic [of Iran], Ali Khamenei, about ceasing the global activities of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force and confining i

When were the minorities oppressed?

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:45:35 +0300

In the past, minorities in Syria were not oppressed. If we studied the Kurdish example, we would find the Kurds to be founders of the national Syrian state, amongst them those who held the highest gov

Destroying the embassy

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:48:23 +0300

On the anniversary of the September 11th 2001 attacks, and against the backdrop of overwhelming rage at a trivial, defamatory film about the Prophet Mohammed, masses flocked to the US embassy in Cairo

Regression in the name of progress

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:56:19 +0300

Can you imagine that the people of Riyadh – this extremely conservative city – were the most tolerant! Three decades ago, there were theatres in Riyadh’s schools, and cinema’s

Arabs must not repeat Iran�s errors

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:02:18 +0300

In the space of a single century, Iran experienced two revolutions. The first revolution, in the first decade of the 20th century, took Iran forward. The second , in the 1970s, put the clock back. I w

The crisis of renewing Islamic thought

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:02:16 +0300

Most trends in political Islam stipulate that the Islamic state protects freedom of creed. “So let whoever wishes believe and whoever wishes reject,” says the Quran. Several, however, cons

Is Iraq�s stance on Syria the same as Tehran�s?

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:52:56 +0300

Critics of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government have paint-brushed Baghdad’s stance on Syria to being similar to Iran’s, but in defense, the country’s Foreign Mini

Analysis: Patronage stalls Yemen�s transition

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:46:51 +0300

(IRIN) - There is a common saying on the streets of the Yemeni capital Sana’a these days: “Those who ruled us in the past still rule us at present.” After a year of nation-wide prot

What are Assad�s choices now?

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:29:15 +0300

When Bashar al-Assad inherited the presidency of Syria from his father in 2000, a large portion of Syrians welcomed that young doctor who studied ophthalmology in Britain, who was known to be into sci

News Analysis: Security worsens in Yemen as dialogue committee faces controversy

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:14:27 +0300

(Xinhua) -- Fierce clashes broke out in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday that has left 17 people killed as the defected army tried to take control over the interior ministry, which showed security situa

Can the Brotherhood triumph in defeat?

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:52:56 +0300

During the days of the Libyan revolution’s conflict with the Gaddafi regime, one witty commenter observed a commander in the battlefield with a long beard, turban and traditional Arab clothing,